Mapping Oregon’s Coastal COmmunity REsilience (CORE) Perspectives - Workshop

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Overview

This presentation represents a sub-product in SSWR.402.1.2 (“Climate Impact on Ecosystem Resources that Support Coastal Community, Mitigation, Adaptation, & resilience”; Product Lead: Matt Harwell), within the Ecosystem and Community Resilience Research Area (SSWR.402), Coastal Community Resilience Output (SSWR.402.1). The presentation provides background, context, and instructions for a participatory mapping workshop (breakout session) at the 2024 State of the Coast Conference, which aims to guide participants through a community mapping exercise, and provide localized spatial context for the related literature review (L-PESD-0034428-QP-1-0).

Impact/Purpose

About 40% of the world’s population live within 100km of the coast (approximately 9% of global land area), with 22% of those areas considered highly vulnerable to risks associated with climate change like coastal flooding and sea-level rise. Additionally, links between socio-economic inequities, environmental injustice, and social determinants of health significantly contribute to overall climate change vulnerability but are less spatially understood because of existing nuance at the community-level. Maps have long been an essential tool to spatially represent these and other coastal management issues but have traditionally been a top-down practice. More recently, there has been a surge of “participatory mapping”, a collaborative mapping effort that acknowledges the importance of public attitudes, values, perceptions, and knowledge for just and resilient community futures. This session provides an opportunity for researchers/scientists, practitioners, etc. working in the Hatfield community to lend their voice to a participatory mapping activity and a broader conversation about Oregon coastal communities’ values and perceptions. In a hands-on mapping activity for everyone, the workshop will result in a co-generated community map representing local knowledge and lived experience, and discussing how knowledge co-production can lead to increased resilience and capacity building in communities.

Citation

Farrell, D., B. Haley, AND P. Meeks. Mapping Oregon’s Coastal COmmunity REsilience (CORE) Perspectives - Workshop. Seaside Civic and Convention Center, Seaside, OR, Seaside, OR, November 22, 2024.